SC22/WG20 N638
From:
10646er@sesame.demon.co.uk (John Clews)Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 1999 9:58 AM
To: SC22WG20@dkuug.dk
Subject:
ISO 3166-2, in relation to ISO/IEC 14652 and ISO/IEC 15897
For information
ISO 3166 is in three parts, although part 3 only includes a list of
superseded codes. ISO 3166-2 (Codes for the representation of names of
countries and their subdivisions, part 2 - Country subdivision code)
was published by ISO Central Secretariat only on 1998-12-15.
As this includes information on quite a number of cultural elements,
for quite a number of countries, and languages (European and
non-European), including fallback characters, sorting orders in
specific languages, transliteration systems, country codes and
language codes, and may in fact be used by some as a handy source of
information on cultural elements, in my view it would be useful for
members of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG20 to look at this in advance of the
next meeting of JTC1/SC22/WG20, and possibly even to include
reference to this at part of the next meeting of JTC1/SC22/WG20 in
Philadelphia (May 1999).
It may have some relevance to ISO/IEC FCD 14652 and ISO/IEC 15897,
even if it may only involved cross-referencing standards in
Normative references.
ISO 3166-2 includes new codes for administrative units, and in
addition also uses pre-existing codes for countries (from ISO 3166-1)
languages (from ISO 639-1, and also lists transliteration systems
that have been used for certain entries, and also national ordering
practices for certain languages which are used in certain countries.
Best regards
John Clews
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Email: European@sesame.demon.co.uk; telephone: +44 (0) 1423 888 432
Committee Chair: ISO/TC46/SC2: Conversion of Written Languages
Committee Member: CEN/TC304: European Localization Requirements
Committee Member: ISO/IEC/JTC1/SC22/WG20: Internationalization
Committee Member: ISO/IEC/JTC1/SC2: Coded Character Sets
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